Etienne Cherdlu

Andrew Dinn andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Tue Oct 15 03:25:03 CDT 1996


grip at netcom.com writes:

> If you haven't read Hofstadter's first work, try it. It is a delightful 
> book, although tough sledding in some of the more technical aspects such 
> as Goedel's incompleteness theorem.

I don't like it much but then I did a degree in two of the subjects he
is glossing. If you want an easy(er) approach to Goedel try reading
Raymond Smullyan's `What is the name of this book'. Actually, try it
even if you don't want an easy approach to Goedel but just some
intriguing and complex puzzling as an introduction to mathematical
logic.


Andrew Dinn
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